from what i read this attack was more about users not properly trained. they received emails to change passwords and clicked on the link
Guys,ICTA seems to be on top of it....On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:GoK seem to have been found sleeping by Anonmouse. The new frontier is the Internet, and what we have been discussing the whole week on this list is security related.Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking collective claim to have compromised a massive 1TB-worth of data from a server of the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.After the information was leaked the Anonymous-affiliated hacktivists told HackRead: "We have 1TB of data but at the moment, we have leaked just one portion of it. In a few days you will receive full disclosure of the data"http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-hackers-claim-steal-1tb-data-ministry-foreign-affairs-kenya-1557218
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